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LONG WAY Shortcut edition

Player Session Games 0 Removals 0 Rounds 0 Turns 0 Moves 0 Card Height 96

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Long Way is an old solitaire. Your mission in the game is to remove cards from the deck-board system. Game could be nominated as a waste of time. You do not need to think or remember many things. The Classic four slot version also lasts very long. Another name for the game is eternity. Name points to the time you have to spend with the game.

In the game you gather cards, with same numbers, into same slot. You always move cards from right to left. After you have gathered all four cards into the same slot. If all 4 cards becomes visible at the same time, you are allowed to remove the cards from the board. Removal of the 4 cards with same value is automated in this game version.

You start the game, that you deal 4 or 6 six ( depends on the version )  to the table. Then you can  gather cards with the same value to a single slot. You are not forced to do all possible moves. After you have made your moves, you deal new cards to the board. From left to right order. Then you make your make your moves and after that you deal new cards to the table.

After you have dealt all cards from the deck to the table you gather cards from slots back to deck. Slots are gathered from right to left.  So, that the upper card from the rightmost slot is the last card in the new deck. The first card in the deck is always is the bottom card from the leftmost slot. This gathering system preserves all moves ( and the new order ) you made during the previous round.

The game ends after you have removed all cards from the deck.

You can scroll the deck as many times as you wish, and you never lose.

Editions

Traditional edition from the game is played with four slots and common 52 card deck.

Shortcut edition from the game is played with six slots and common 52 card deck. Shortcut version is app 4 times shorter than the original 4 slot solitaire.

Rules for the both editions are the same.

Change of the game type is always done with Reset option. First you change the style from settings, then you start new game with Reset-menu option.

Playing the game

You deal new set of cards with deck. In Long Way Deck is  so called multi function "button". When you click the deck, the thing, the game engine does, depends on the stage of the current game. Usually the deck-click deals new cards to the slots. After the deck is empty, click to the deck gathers cards from the table back to deck. After the game is over, deck-click starts new game.

You move the card from slot-to-slot, by clicking either of the slots with mouse. The first slot-click selects the upper card from the clicked slot. Second click to some other slot moves the cards. You deselect the slot, by clicking it for the second time.

After you get all four cards ( with same number )  to the table at the same time, you remove them by clicking one of the cards.

Settings

If you play with "Match Pairs Automatically" option checked, and there are only two cards with same value on the table, the game matches and moves after the first click.

If you play with "Enhanced 1st slot clicks" option checked, and you click the leftmost card, all visible cards with same value are moved to the leftmost deck. After that also the new cards are checked for matches. And moved, if the value is equal to the clicked slot. The 1st is not the first slot on the table. It is the first slot with moveable card. You can never move the 1st cards to left. And neither can you reveal card from the left to the leftmost card.

[ Not available in this version : Undo function is limited to one. ( In all R&D solitaires ) With Undo you can cancel accidentally made clicks and moves, without penalty. ]

Card sets

There are two card sets available for the game. Fantasy and Traditional French cards. You change the cards with option. The new card set is taken to use when you start the new game.

Hints ( mostly for the Classic version )

Sometimes Classic game gets stuck. When it does so, you have to leave few cards, which can be moved, to their original places. When you do so, the deadlock in the order is opened, and cards starts to roll again.  In shortcut version bottom cards rolls all the time, without moving them. 

Sometimes you want to break 3 card series, so that you can get the top cards moving. They tend to get stuck into 3 card series.

Sometimes you want to break 3 card series, so that you can get the 4th card away from the bottom of the deck.  After a single card falls to the bottom,  in classic game and without help, it takes sometimes a very long time before it comes back to the top. And start to form removable 4 series with the others. In Classic game bottom card is the same by default, a move is needed, before it changes. If the first and last card are the same, it is good idea to haunt and change the bottom card. 

In the end both versions get sometimes into the order deadlock. When you make all possible moves, nothing changes for the next round. And you cannot get new removable card sets. You can always break the locks with undone moves.

Getting 4 cards to the table at the same time needs, that in 4-slot game the first card is 1st, 4th, 8th, 12th in the deck. You can always calculate how the cards go for the 1st slot. With free moves and leaves you can adjust the positions of the 3 and 4 card series so, that they will be movable or removable during the next round.

In 6 slot version the positioning rule is not as tight, for the first deal, the last card must be 6th or higher in the deck. In 6 slot-shortcut version you get sometimes 4  card series to the table without waiting for the next round. You can remove these quickies just like the traditional 4 card sets. You click one card from the series, and it is removed.

Card resizers

You can change the sizes of the cards with resize buttons on the left. You change the height of the card, and the game calculates the widths automatically. The changes card size takes place immediately. It does not have any affect the game play.  The current card height is shown to you over the buttons. When you load the game page, auto resize function is automatically executed for you.

Reduce the card height with 16 pixels.
Reduce the height with 4 pixels.
Automatically resize cards so, that they usually cover the maximum are from the screen.
Reset card size to 96 x 71 pixels.
Increase the height with 4 pixels.
Increase the card height with 16 pixels.

Statistics

Session section in the left side bar has counters for the current game. After you finish the game, the results are summed in to statistics. Long Way gathers stats from all the games you have played. There are separated stats for both game modes.

The best is always the best result for the subject of the stat. 
Avg. is an average from all played games. 
Worst is the result from the worst played game.

Rounds is the number of timed you have gathered cards from the table.
Turns tells how many times you dealt cards from deck to table.
Moves tells how many times you have moved cards on the table.

The three subjects were chosen to stats because they vary a lot. In the longer sessions the game you play with the least moves is hardly ever the same, you play with least turns or rounds.

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